Land of the red sun - Stuck, cant figure out what to do next.
Im very early in the creation of my homebrew campaign and wanted some early feedback, the below may be lacking context so please ask questions!
World Lore:
Theocracy of Tyr
A heavily religious city, worshippers of the god of justice, Tyr. Population: 200,000
History:
Established thousands of years ago, due to the defensible position and easy access to drinking water.
Head of the crusades, of which there has been 2, one in 25 years ago, and one now.
Hosts Bahamut as advisor and guardian, appeared after the first crusade started.
Bahamut battled two homunculi. towering creatures, he bested both, but the first took his arm and the second his wing. he is a wounded icon.
Economy
Imports most food from Minima, grows barely enough to sustain population due to limited fertile land
Rich from exporting Jewellery, turns dwarven metal into fine accessories, which is sold all over.
Covets gold especially for military use.
Alliances
Dwarves: reliant for metal and weapons, cordial relationship as they know little about the dwarves
Minima: Extremely protective, due to security and long standing friendship.
Culture
Highly spiritual, hardened by the presence of bahamut, but fearful due to how costly the first crusade was.
Enjoy jewellery and extravagance.
mandatory military service, this is an extremely popular policy after the first crusade.
Individualists united by religion and outside threat
North Nfarah
The Northern mountain pass settlement of Tyr, has its own distinct culture. more fanatical. Hates South Nfarah, thinks their more temperate environment made them soft.
South Nfarah
The Southern mountain pass settlement of Tyr, has its own distinct culture. Hates north Nfarah, thinks they are stuck up masochists who hate fun.
Minima
'city' of halflings, more of a large town that is constantly expanding, due to a deep preference for space inefficient housing and farmland. Population: 150,000
Tyr and dwarves breadbasket, exports enormous amounts of food.
home to the all major bard colleges, exports a lot of culture and scholars.
History:
established around the same time as Tyr, and became an immediate trade partner.
Discounted all food exports during crusades without being asked, selling at cost.
Established Bard colleges hundreds of years ago, has a firm grasp on the sector
Alliances
Dwarves: does not interact apart from selling food, little need as they make their own tools.
Theocracy of Tyr: Extremely protective, they have a familial attitude to them, Guards minima with a stronghold to the north
Belash, Now called 'The lost city'
Was the centre of all commerce and lending, funded Theocracy of Tyr expansion into the mountain pass with bonds. rich with nobility and excess.
it was turned into a philosophers stone 25 years ago by Silas Vain, the stone, the size of a cathedral now sits at the centre of the ruins, acting as his phylactery
Baskinon Population 25,000
City of the elves, very isolationist. self sufficient. revere the Sea of blindness
History
Existed before man
Economy
inward turned
Culture
Blindness is revered, to enter into the clergy one must stare into the sea of blindness until their eyes melt, gaining blindsight (10ft)
Worship of mutation, due to the radioactive nature of the sea of blindness, many inhabitants are born with extra limbs and deformities, instead of being ostracised, they are worshipped as gifts, no matter how horrifying.
Intensely magical, and become more magically proficient after blindness ritual.
Brimstone Keep population: Unknown
Little is known about them, no human or halfling has ever entered their mountain city.
Created a massive canal themselves to ship to Tyr and recive food from minima
Economy
Mass exporter of metal goods, weapons, armour, tools.
imports food from minima.
Culture
worship of the adamantium forge (expand?)
Iron Canal
Settlement of the dwarves, very secretive but less so than their city. humans and halflings have been here. very similar culture to home, often dwarves cant bear to stay longer so they rotate placement every few months.
Korgoth Population: 50,000
Orcish settlement placed under and next to the remains of a immense homunculus created by Silas vain during the first crusade.
they revere the bones and partake rituals of drinking its marrow for strength.
Warlike species who is trapped behind the dunes of madness
Silas:
Silas Vain was once the richest preacher on the eastern continent, a man who sold faith by the crowd while privately believing none of it. When his daughter Elena was marked by destined death, every miracle he could buy failed. Her death broke him, but not into humility. It broke him into purpose.
His failed resurrection cursed him with undeath: he cannot die, cannot pass on, and cannot reach the child he claims to love. For five years he grieved. Then he began converting grief into infrastructure.
His first true act was the Great Transmutation: an entire banking city of 250,000 souls compressed into a single philosopher’s stone, now his phylactery. The First Crusade of Tyr began because of that crime. It failed to end him.
Silas no longer seeks merely to see Elena. That was the first lie grief told him. He now seeks to reverse the divine hierarchy itself: to make gods mortal.
Sea of blindness:
Pure alkahest, required for the binding of souls to matter. it is the universal solvent, only contained by the perfect material, gold.